How are the software.installStatus and software.activeStatus supposed to behave during the various software actions (install, uninstall, activate & deactivate)?
There's absolutely no discussion of these fields in the spec, that I can see, and there's no indication of what values they should have, or when those values should change.
You are right, in previous releases of the spec these attributes have been neglected. However in the new R4 specs of TS-0001 (currently 4.9) and with the introduction of the <softwareCampaign> resource type a better description is written in clause 10.2.28 "Software Management":
If the softwareOperation attribute has a value of INSTALL or UNINSTALL, the Hosting CSE shall accordingly set the install or uninstall attribute to TRUE for each [software] specialization linked through the softwareLinks attribute. When the Hosting CSE receives a notification that the installStatus attribute of a [software] specialization has been updated to a value of installed or uninstalled, the Hosting CSE shall update the corresponding entry in the individualSoftwareStatus attribute to a value of INSTALLED or UNINSTALLED, accordingly. When the Hosting CSE detects that the installStatus attribute of all the [software] specializations have been updated to installed or uninstalled, the Hosting CSE shall update the aggregatedSoftwareStatus attribute to INSTALLED or UNINSTALLED, accordingly.
If the softwareOperation attribute has a value of ACTIVATE or DEACTIVATE, the Hosting CSE shall accordingly set the activate or deactivate attribute to TRUE for each [software] specialization linked through the softwareLinks attribute. When the Hosting CSE receives a notification that the activeStatus attribute of a [software] specialization has been updated to a value of activated or deactivated, the Hosting CSE shall update the corresponding entry in the individualSoftwareStatus attribute to a value of ACTIVATED or DEACTIVATED, accordingly. When the Hosting CSE detects that the activeStatus attribute of all [software] specializations have been updated to a value of activated or deactivated, the Hosting CSE shall update the aggregatedSoftwareStatus attribute to ACTIVATED or DEACTIVATED, accordingly.
